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Mining Data Management

Innovative multi-disciplinary database solutions

SRK Consulting has a team of professional and technical staff who provide innovative, computer-based data integration, management, and presentation services for a wide range of earth science disciplines. Extensive quantities of data may thereby be made readily accessible and meaningful, providing a basis for clients to make and review decisions in real time.

Combining spatial technology-oriented skills with available computer technologies, we process and integrate large and varied spatial data sets of environmental, mining, hydrological and geotechnical information. Outputs can be analyzed and compared, allowing for multi-disciplinary decision support and implementation of unique and cost-effective solutions.

We have applied these techniques to a variety of earth science projects, including the management of tailings dam complexes; site characterization; geological, hydrological and geotechnical exploration, and environmental mapping, assessment, monitoring and remediation.

Feature Consultant

Wayne Barnett has collected, managed, and interpreted exploration and mining data throughout his 18-year career in the mining and exploration industry. In 1999, he built the first known integrated ODBC database that used geotechnical mapping and production drilling sensor data to automatically calculate rock mass classification information for immediate use in mine planning and slope design.

A principal structural geologist, Wayne undertakes and provides best-practices training in structural and oriented drill core logging and mapping, geological data management, data QA/QC, and the statistical analysis of structural data. He is an expert in geological applications of ArcGIS and has developed customized analytical tools for exploration purposes. Wayne is driven to improve the geological mapping workflows for mining operations through integrating the benefits of old-school interpretative paper-based mapping with new mapping technologies.

Blair is an expert in the geological interpretation of remote sensing data, in particular the structural geological interpretation of aeromagnetic data. He specializes in the compilation and integration of diverse data sets including lithogeochemistry, magnetic and gravity data, satellite imagery, and mapping-based structural and lithologic data. He uses this information to interpret and model the evolution and geometry of complex, mineralized terranes and to aid in GIS-based exploration targeting.

Blair has 20 years of experience in the exploration industry, with government geological surveys, and in academic settings mapping and modeling the lithology, structure and mineral deposits in deformed Archean to Paleozoic terranes. He has broad experience with the regional geological setting of mineral deposits and specific experience evaluating the structural controls of lode gold, epithermal gold-silver, and porphyry copper-gold deposits. He is highly experienced in the 3-D computer modelling of deposit types to aid resource evaluation and drill targeting. Blair has taught more than 15 applied structural geology courses internationally to over 1,000 exploration and mining geologists and engineers.

Glen Cole has over 25 years of practical, international experience in precious and base metal exploration and mining projects. He has worked with most aspects of applied economic geology in relation to a range of deposit types and commodities. Prior to joining SRK, he held senior technical positions at the corporate and operational level in Africa.

Glen’s areas of expertise include exploration project management, underground and opencast operations geology, grade control, geostatistics, mineral resource development, and geological modelling. He has a holistic appreciation of the exploration-to-mining life cycle and hands-on experience in all aspects of mineral resource management.